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This means that the emphasis is on the apertures or the convexities , or on
various ramifications and offshoots : the open mouth , the genital organs , the
breasts , the phallus , the potbelly , the nose . The body discloses its essence as
a ...
This means that the emphasis is on the apertures or the convexities , or on
various ramifications and offshoots : the open mouth , the genital organs , the
breasts , the phallus , the potbelly , the nose . The body discloses its essence as
a ...
Page 148
This gesture and the words that accompany it are based on a literal debasement
in terms of the topography of the body , that is , a reference to the bodily lower
stratum , the zone of the genital organs . This signifies destruction , a grave for the
...
This gesture and the words that accompany it are based on a literal debasement
in terms of the topography of the body , that is , a reference to the bodily lower
stratum , the zone of the genital organs . This signifies destruction , a grave for the
...
Page 314
In another part of the novel ( Book Three , Chapter 8 ) we find Panurge ' s long
dissertation stating that the first and most important armor is the cod piece
protecting the genital organs . He states that when a man ' s head is cut off he
alone ...
In another part of the novel ( Book Three , Chapter 8 ) we find Panurge ' s long
dissertation stating that the first and most important armor is the cod piece
protecting the genital organs . He states that when a man ' s head is cut off he
alone ...
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Contents
INTRODUCTION | 31 |
ONE Rabelais in the History of Laughter | 59 |
TWO The Language of the Marketplace in Rabelais | 145 |
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| Title | Rabelais and His World A Midland book ; MB 341 Volume 341 of Midland books |
| Authors | Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich Bakhtin, Mikhail Mikha?ilovich Bakhtin |
| Translated by | Hélène Iswolsky |
| Contributor | Michael Holquist |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press, 1984 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 1 May 2008 |
| ISBN | 0253348307, 9780253348302 |
| Length | 484 pages |
| Subjects | › › Literary Criticism / European / French Literary Criticism / Medieval |
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